See also: Carpenter (homonymy)

Gustave Charpentier is a Compositeur French, born with Dieuze the June 25th 1860 and died with Paris the February 18th 1956.

Biography

Born in Lorraine, its family leaves her native area after the war free-Prussian of 1870 and settles with Tourcoing where it follows courses of Violon and of Harmonie at the school of the Art schools. Within sight of its excellent results and conscious of the talent of its pupil, the Town of Tourcoing offers a purse to him so that it can continue his studies with the academy of Paris.

Carpenter was pupil of Emile Pessard and Jules Massenet with the Conservatoire of Paris and gained two years later the Prix of Rome in 1887. Its composition Napoli, Symphony sentimental and picturesque and its vocal and instrumental work the Life of the poet, symphony-drama are voluntarily eccentric. In 1897, it created the Crowning of the MUSE , a spectacle which had as a Montmartre decoration. Its career is pricipalement related to the success of its chief of work, Louise , even if, in 1913, a second opera had been born: Julien . This last did not have success and it was withdrawn from the rooms of the Op3era Comique after only 20 representations. Very worried by the social questions, he is the founder of the popular Academy Mimi Finch, intended for the artistic education of the young workers and, with Alfred Bruneau, of the Federation of the Artists musicians (1902), a prolongation of the Employers' federation of the artists musicians of Paris, founded in 1901.

After having worked with the transposition (orchestration and cuts) of its works most famous for the radio, in 1938-1939, Gustave Charpentier collaborated in a cinematographic version of its opera Louise put in scene by Abel Gance.

Gustave Charpentier died out in Paris in 1956, five years after having directed for the last time the Crowning of the MUSE (1250 executants) in front of the Saint-Pierre market at the time of the bimillenary of Paris and Montmartre.

Principal works

Orchestral works

• Impressions of Italy , symphonic continuation (1889)
• Munich , symphonic poem (1910-1911)

• Didon , lyric scene (1887)
• Life of the poet , symphonic drama for voice soloists, chorus and orchestra (1888)
• the Song of the way for soprano, tenor, voice of women and piano (1893)
• false Impressions for baritone, voice of men and orchestra (1894)
• Flowers of the evil for voice and piano (1895)
• Serenade in Watteau voice soloists, chorus and orchestra (1896)
• the Crowning of the MUSE voice soloists, chorus and orchestra (1897)
• Song of apotheosis voice soloists, chorus and orchestra (1902)
• fairy-like Life , film music for voice and orchestra (after 1913)
• sung Poems (1895; 1900), melodies on texts of Verlaine, Baudelaire, Blémont, Méry and Al

Operas

• Louise (1900)
• Julien (1913)

Unfinished projects

• Love in the suburb (1910-1913; then called Duthoit , popular epopee in three evenings)
• Orphée (not represented, unfinished - two acts)
• Eros (not represented, unfinished)
• Julie (not represented, unfinished)

Correspondence

• Gustave Carpenter, new Letters with his/her parents: daily life of a pupil of Academy (1879-1887) , Francoise Andrieux ED., Paris, university Presses of France, 1984.
• Alfred Bruneau and Gustave Carpenter: a indestructible and tender friendship: new correspondences (under the direction of Sylvie Shower and Jean-Christophe Branger), Paris: University of Paris-Sorbonne, coll “French musical Observatory”, series “Correspondences, talks, memories” n° 2, 2004, 120 p., 21 cm. ISBN 2-84591-107-6. Work resulting from work of a seminar. In appendix: “The courses of Mimi Finch will be my single recreation” of Michela Niccolai.